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By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja
Stakeholders and players in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian economy yesterday took turns to highlight the significant-good inherent in the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB currently undergoing legislative scrutiny in the national assembly.
The was as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila assured that the bill would be passed into law in April this year.
The stakeholders which included the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, the Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mele Kyari and the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Mohammed Nami said that bill when promulgated into law would promote economic growth and bring about the needed vigour and transparency that would, in turn, engende
NDDC: Group urges President Buhari to inaugurate the Senate confirmed board
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The Niger Delta Development Initiative (NDDI), a socio-cultural, political and economic pressure group has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the legally recognised Board of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which he appointed in August 2019.
In a petition signed by the President of the Group Chief Ebikalome Tonye Anselm and Secretary Comrade Johnson Oghenekevbe, the NDDI drew the attention of President Buhari to what it termed ‘the illegalities’ currently going on in the Commission and the urgent need to act in accordance with the law setting it (NDDC) up.
Damian Nwikinaka, National Chairman of Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition, warns that the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission gives a wider latitude for corruption in the agency
It is shameful that the lies and plots undertaken by the Niger Delta Minister Chief Godswill Akpabio in hijacking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have come to a shameful denouement in two illegal heads laying claim to the headship of the agency. It underscores the tardiness of the Buhari administration in its disregard for the law. The latest embarrassment is from the ruling of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which said in plain terms that the Federal Government lied in stating that it (the court) gave a restraining order against the Interim Management Committee (IMC) imposed on the NDDC, on which basis Chief Akpabio caused one of his former aides, Mr. Effiong Okon Akwa, to take over as Sole Administrator.
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Federal High Court Ruling on IMC: Buhari should stop the charade at NDDC – Group
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Group known as Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition, Thursday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to follow the law and inaugurate a Governing Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in order to avert the looming anarchy that will befall the commission.
Disclosing this in a statement sent to Vanguard by the group’s National Chairman, Comrade Damian Nwikinaka, the group opined that “It is shameful that the lies and plots undertaken by the Niger Delta Minister in hijacking the Niger Delta Development Commission have come to a shameful denouement in two illegal heads laying claim to the headship of the agency.
The Niger Delta Peoples’ Forum is shocked at the puerile attempt to turn truth on his head, in an incoherent statement of fallacies credited to the Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, published in Vanguard newspaper of December 18, 2020, captioned “Akpabio justifies appointment of sole administrator for NDDC.”
In unwinding and contradictory statements Akpabio falsely averred that “the appointment of a sole administrator for the NDDC today cannot be regarded as illegality” because according to him, it is based on precedence. Nothing can be further from the truth.
In the statement as reported by Vanguard, Akpabio stated that “even the first executive director of finance and administration acted as sole administrator of NDDC at various times, we have also had a sole administrator from Rivers State in the person of Semenitari, we have also had one from Cross River State, as well as Mrs. Enyia from Bayelsa while awaiting the confirmation of